Monday, October 8, 2012

For Immediate Release: "Free Pussy Riot" MP3 by Tobi Vail

PRESS RELEASE:

Tobi Vail has released a song called Free Pussy Riot in solidarity with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, the three jailed members of Pussy Riot who are currently serving two years in prison for performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow church. Pussy Riot is an anonymous feminist punk collective who play unsanctioned concerts as a means of political protest. Pussy Riot started in Moscow but chapters are forming internationally in solidarity with group members'unjust imprisonment and continued state harassment.

Inspired by Free John Sinclair by John and Yoko, Free Pussy Riot was
written for Tobi's recent performance at Primera Persona at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Tobi continues to play Free Pussy Riot in her solo set, recently performing it live backed by The Pussy Riot Olympia Solidarity Band at Kitzel's Deli in Olympia, WA as part of an event held to rally international awareness and support for the Russian group. Pussy Riot Olympia videos can be viewed via Tobi's youtube
channel

On October 10 Pussy Riot's appeal will be heard by a Russian court. To
quote from Tobi's solidarity statement she reads at the end of
her song:

Pussy Riot is organizing in Moscow but the struggle for
self-determination of women, LGBTQ rights, gender justice and
political transparency is an international one. 'Death to Prison,
Freedom to Protest' Free Pussy Riot!